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money to her ouiier. This made it necessary that we should confine our 

 investigations to those who sold the product of the cow all in the same 

 market, and to take account of a full year, wliich, in this ease, was the 

 twelve months ending October 31, 1903. 



MANNER OF GETTING INFORMATION. 



My manner of proceeding was as follows: I Avould go to a man and 

 find the average number of cows he had kept, the milk of which had 

 been sold to the creamery. All heifers, after they had had calves, were 

 count'jd as cows, and all cows were counted during the period when they 

 were dry as well as when they were giving milk, for thej' were eating 

 every day. 



I then made particular inquiry as to the kinds and amounts of the 

 different feeds the cows had eaten during the year. I charged the cows 

 of each herd the same prices for the same kinds of feed— that which was 

 raised on the farm at the market price at which it could have been sold, 

 and that which was bought at the average price which it was worth in 

 the market. 



PRICES CHARGED THE COW FOR FEEDS. 



For ear corn and oats ground I charged $17 per ton; wheat bran, $17; 

 oil meal, .$30; ear corn, $12; timothy hay, $10; clover hay, $8; corn stover, 

 $2 a load; silage, .$2 a ton. and pasture at the uniform price of $5 per 

 head for the summer. 



There was some uncertainty about the amounts each farmer fed, for 

 very few of them liad weighed any of the feed; most of them could tell 

 very nearly as to the amount of the grain fed, in "gallons," and having 

 done a good deal in the way of weighing cows' rations I could, I think, 

 approximate quite closely to the amount fed. 



I figure that a cow will eat, ordinarily, during the winter feeding 

 season, two tons of hay, or its equivalent of corn fodder, if she is not fed 

 too much grain food. Then she would eat less. As to corn stover, I made 

 some inquiry to enable rae to set a price on it, and found that very little 

 had l)c(>n sold, but in a few instances it had been sold at $2 a load, so I 

 <liargo(l that for it. All it really costs is the work in saving it, for there 

 are hundreds of acres left in the fields wliich are practically wasted. 

 It takes 4 or ."> Id.ids of corn fodder to furnish a cow Avith the two tons 

 of forage she needs, when it is fed on the ground in the ordinary way, 

 as much of it can not be eaten. 



In determining the weight of silage fed, I can come pretty close if 

 I am told the measure. I have found that a inisbel basket full, put in 



